Jammu and Kashmir government woos tourists amid terror attacks

Srinagar: Militants on Monday carried out three apparently-synchronised attacks killing three policemen and injuring two persons in the valley where Asia's largest Tulip Garden was opened to public as a major event to woo tourists to Jammu and Kashmir.

The deadliest of the attacks in three hours took place in Amshipora village in Shopian district of south Kashmir in which three policemen were killed by the ultras.

The attacks came on a day when Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed opened the Tulip garden on the banks of the Dal lake expressing the hope that the Valley would see a bumper tourist season this year and to make the numbers "unprecedented".

A police officer said the three policemen—Head Constable Mushtaq Ahmad and Constables Shabir Hussain and Nazeer Ahmad Wani--had gone to the village to investigate a routine criminal case when the militants attacked them.

"The constables were unarmed and had travelled by a public vehicle. The attack took place at around 1.30 pm," the official said.